NP but RP and the cover of Vineland, so to speak and allude. Another (major) writer influenced by....

[Jochen Stremmel]

What a nice find!

2018-04-04 13:57 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> *Contains a wonderful high-praising review of Richard Powers' new novel,
> The Overstory, by Charles who just won a major award for criticism and
> well-deserved, I say. His reviews are wonderfully written, as well as being
> insightful: https://twitter.com/RonCharles/status/981202559959556097
> <https://twitter.com/RonCharles/status/981202559959556097>*
>
>
> *https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/23/the-
> overstory-by-richard-powers-review
> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/23/the-
> overstory-by-richard-powers-review>*
>
> *AV:* One of your early influences was Thomas Pynchon’s *Gravity’s
> Rainbow*,
> which you first read at age sixteen and which you have “re-read portions of
> . . . every year.” What is it about Pynchon that you admire since your
> writing styles are dissimilar?
>
> *RP:* More things than I can name. One of the many pleasures of Pynchon is
> that he doesn’t have a single style, but manages to create a whole
> panharmonicon of voices and styles and tones and moods and registers,
> borrowing from high and low, sublime and ridiculous, combining the entire
> spectrum of what prose can do into a symphonic whole. I can’t pretend to do
> even a fraction of what he manages, but he has inspired me to open up my
> own stops and try to vary my own style as much as possible, depending on
> the needs and purposes of any given scene. Pynchon is also the master of
> casting the reach of fiction far beyond the concerns of the merely personal
> and domestic, out into the vast world of human concerns, professions,
> researches, and industries. I learned from him that the sciences and math
> and engineering are actually the stuff of human passion and obsession, and
> that the erotics of knowledge can make for a story every bit as mystifying
> and thrilling as the old questions of who’s up and who’s down, who’s in and
> who’s out, and who gets to marry whom.
>
> At Bard: http://www.conjunctions.com/about/news/event/?id=133678
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